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system which can be carried out by small creameries with a small amount of 

 labor. Sample forms given include those for the driver's report, the daily 

 receiving record, the route checking record, patron's statement, purchase and 

 sales records, orders for goods, sale slip for shipment, daily cost record, and 

 monthly inventory. 



VETERINARY MEDICINE. 



Upon the real immune state and the question of immunity in infectious 

 diseases, E. Metciinikokf (In Lch I'rir \obcL Stockholm, 190S, pp. l-2'i). — 

 This is the author's address before the Nobel Prize Committee at Stockholm 

 in 1908. 



In regard to the partial functions of the cell, P. Ehblich (In Les Prix 

 Nobel. Stockholm, ]<)0S, pp. 1-19). — This is the author's address before the 

 \obel Prize Committee at Stockholm in 1908, and deals particularly with his 

 newer work in clioniotherapy. 



Hematological technique, H. Schridde and O. Naegeli (Ildmatologischc 

 technik. Jena, 1910, pp. VI + 135, pi. 1, figs. 20). — The first part of this work, 

 on the technique of histological methods of studying the blood and blood- 

 forming organs, is by 11. Schridde; the second part, on the technique in 

 clinico-morphological studies of the blood, is by O. Naegeli. 



Contribution to the study of the physiology of Spirillum gallinarum. — I, 

 Assimilation of glucose, A. PonsilLle {Compt. Rend. 8oc. Biol. [Paris], 69 

 ( 1910), Xo. 30, pp. 301-309; ahs. in Chcm. Abs., 5 {1911), No. 3, pp. 519, 520).— 

 It was found in experiments with this organism in vitro that the aggiulina- 

 lion and loss of motility process makes use of the glucose in the blood of the 

 host for glucolysis. The blood, according to the author, contains a catalytic 

 agent which aids in the assimilation of the glucose, the glucose not being 

 assimilated directly by the organism. 



The supposed catalytic agent is resistant to a heat at 110° C, this only for a 

 tew minutes. Oxygen was found to be necesstiry for the reaction, which pro- 

 grosses slowly at 15° and rapidly at 37°. It was found that the liver also con- 

 tains the catalytic substance, and could be substituted for the red blood cor- 

 puscles. The si)irillum dies in a few minutes at 37°, unless calcium carbonate 

 is present to neutralize the acids in formation. 



Cultivation in vitro of the thyroid gland, A. Carrel and M. T. Burrows 

 (Jour. Expt. Med., IS (1911), No. J,, pp. J,16-.',21, ph. 3).— The authors find 

 that " the thyroid gland in mammals can be cultivated outside the body. The 

 proliferated elements consist of connective tissue and epithelial cells, the former 

 predominating. The cells survive in cultures for 2 weeks or longer, which 

 period can be increased by secondary and sometimes by tertiary cultivations." 



Contribution to the study of bacterial filtrates and extracts, T. Kikutsi 

 (Beitrdge sum Studium dcr Bakterienfiltrate und der Bakterienextrakte. 

 Diss. Osawa, 1910; abs. in Ztschr. Immimitdtsf. u. Expt. Ther., II, Ref., S 

 (1910), No. 11, p. 984). — Bouillon filtrates and aqueous extracts from agar 

 cultures of various pathogenic and saprophytic bacteria did not yield any 

 soluble, thermostable, bactericidal substances, with the exception of Bacillus 

 pyocyaneus. Some of the bactericidal substances of B. pyocyaneus were found 

 in the filtrates, while others were only present in the watery extracts. The 

 thermostable substance which was extracted with alcohol is, according to the 

 author, a lipoid-protein combination, and is only broken up when the bacterial 

 substance is treated with alcohol, and then only is its bactericidal action 

 manifest. Normal bovine and sheep sera and human ascitic fluid pi'oduced 

 precipitates with bacterial extracts or filtrates. This preci])itation does not 

 occur when the serum or ascitic fluid is heated to 60° C. 



